Well, hello July. You snuck up didn’t you?
I’m co-hosting a new link-up, Maximize Your Month with these lovely bloggers:
Esther from Local Adventurer
Hsiao-Ting from Shouting Chow
Lindsay from Lindsay Does Languages
Shannon from Eurolinguiste
Maximize Your Month Link-up is where we share our goals and motivate one another to pursue our dreams. We’d love for you to a part of our community so that we can help inspire one another to achieve our goals. You can join us by adding a link to your own goal post below. We all have things we want to get out of our month, so why not maximize your month with us and #clearthelist. We will be checking back in with you the first Monday of every month.
So let’s see how my June goals went and then onto July goals.
June Re-cap
Exercise
- Yoga, yoga, yoga 🙂
I’ve re-started Adriene’s 30 Days of Yoga. I did not make it to a class still, but I’ve been good about getting in 3 plus days a week. I’m beginning to feel back into the groove with it.
- Get back into the Fitbit steps game. I’ve been slacking on this, I think part of it is because the weather has been blah. Goals is 50,000 steps a week.
Totally sucked at this one, plus for two-weeks the battery died and I didn’t realize it.
- Get a hike in or better yet two 🙂
Yes, two!! I’m really enjoying hiking as a form of exercise. I’ll be sharing more about those in separate posts.
Planning
- TRIPS
LA is a go for next month. Yay! Still need to finalize San Francisco.
- Idea journal and plans of action
Umm, did I really write this as a goal? :p
Routine
- Develop a morning routine. Get up out of bed by 6:30 am.
No. I’m going to keep trying. My sleeping was terrible this month, I have trouble staying asleep. I’ve had sleep problems off and on since we have moved.
- Better organize use of time.
No so much. I even sucked at using my planner this month.
- Pick one project or action item to work on a day and schedule one or two hours just for that item.
Again, not so much.
Create
- Recipe shoot/post
Yes, coming soon.
- Work on design projects
Did the 30 day logo challenge on Skillshare
- Learn more about Typology
Nope.
Blog
- Find a blog to sponsor
Yes!! I did an ad on Montgomery Fest. I felt like it was fate, I saw she was running a sale for a spot and grabbed it. It was a good purchase. Annie did a nice job of giving me social media love. This tweet in particular:
Heading to San Diego this summer? Check out @foodboozebags Discovering San Diego column for some sweet local recs! http://t.co/Y7gyb758pq
— Annie Montgomery (@MontgomeryFest) June 19, 2015
I also had a super fabulous surprise from Katie of The Florkens who offered me a spot on their page. Thank you Katie!! And I got to participate in Kristin’s Global Food series, I really enjoyed putting together this post.
- Reformat pictures on at at least 5 prior posts
Ummm…crickets
June 365 Project 
Above are my favorites pictures from this month. Below are my favorite memories from this month, so not the picture per say, but what the picture represents. I waver between using the 365 project for picture practice or for gratitude/memory keeping. I do what I want 🙂 
1. Friday FunDay with Shannon. We wandered around Little Italy drinking, eating, and talking. It was SO fun! 2. You & Me Day. P took off a Friday in June, and planned a whole day for us. It was the best ♥ 3. June 26, 2015. A wrong was righted and America celebrated in color. Love won and rights were granted to our fellow Americans, that they should never have been denied in the first place. I was so happy to get to witness this historical day. 
July Goals
I’m going to go light on goals this month. July is already a bit busy and we haven’t’ even started it yet 🙂 I’m excited for July as it contains a jaunt to LA and friends! I’m just going to be easy with my time and try to enjoy the moment. I’m giving myself July to not check things off per say, but figure them out. I need a re-set month.
Exercise
Hiking & Yoga, Yoga & Hiking 🙂
- Finish Adriene’s 30 day challenge.
- Try paddle boarding.
- At least 2 hikes.
Planning
- Finalize trip to SF.
- Keep working on that morning routine. Rise and shine by 6:30.
- Work on a plan/goals for August.
Create
- I’ve decided to start a Creative Sundays series on the blog. So each Sunday I will share something I’ve done that is week that I think is creative. It will be a very mixed bag 🙂 I’m going to share, even when I’m not 100% happy with the product or progress. I’m going to try not to censor too much, and just put it out there.
Blog
- Get into a better routine of commenting. Comment on at least 5 blogs a day during the week.
- Reformat pictures on at least two prior posts.
- Make business cards.
Link-up your goals below! What do you want from July? What was a favorite moment for you in June?
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I love a good list. I have recently started hiking more and I’ve realized that I have an easier time getting my fitbit steps in if the scenery is wonderful. I love the idea of a weekly feature – I’ve been horrible at consistency lately.
Yes, much easier to not think of it as exercise (ugh), more of exploring, which I can get behind. Fingers-crossed I keep up with it…July may not have been the best month to start…but I said it 🙂
i like your idea of ‘Creative Sundays.’ i am not really an artsy person but i used to enjoy scrapbooking and making cards and really haven’t done much of it recently, so i like your idea of prioritizing and setting aside time for creativity. that’s coo. =)
Thank you Soapie! If I say I will share something it gives me extra motivation 🙂 I’m trying to make better use of my time and work towards projects, it’s so easy to just waste time on tv or the internet sometimes.
Yay!! I’m so glad that you’re getting into hiking! I can’t wait to go on one with u! 😀
I do like it. We went on Friday, for a 6 mile one, and that was a little much for me. Of course it did not help it was almost 90 degrees either. I was tired!
I’m going to join you on your goal of commenting on 5 blogs a day. I haven’t been reading blogs in WEEKS. eek! So happy to start again with yours!
Thanks Nicole! Welcome back to the real world 🙂 I love reading all the blogs, but I’ve been terrible about commenting on a consistent basis.
Hi! Your linkup brought me to your blog (via Miriam) and it looks like a nice place. I look forward to reading a bit more from you and I wish you luck in your goals for this month.
Thank you Jane! Welcome and glad you stopped by. Thank you for join us!
Hey love this idea. Maximize goals power activated!
The Nectar Collective use to do a goal link-up, and stopped, so we felt like a new one was in order. I’ve been doing a goals post since we moved anyway, so why not 🙂
Yeah, I remember those! Somehow I never managed to do any of them, glad you started one now 😉 Looking forward to it!
Wow – I’m impressed with meeting most of your goals for last month! Good job! I know you’ll do great this month! Can’t wait to see what Creative Sunday will be! Good luck with your goals this month!
Thank you Hsiao-Ting!! I was a bit too ambitious last month, this month I made it a bit more achievable 🙂 Good luck on your July goals as well!
Good luck with all your goals – especially getting up at 06:30, ouch! Your Creative Sundays series sounds like it’ll be really fun; I’ll look out for that 🙂 And thanks for posting the link to the 30 day yoga challenge; exercising more is one of my goals for July too and I know yoga isn’t easy, but it might be something I could be persuaded to do on a lazy day 😉
Thank you Charlotte! We will see how that one goes, I’ve had the morning routine goal for like 3 months 🙂 I love her challenge, you should really check it out. Her other classes are good too.
I like to see people’s creative stuff, even if they’re flops. It lets me know what I should attempt and what I can definitely skip. I’m not a goal setter but I should get back in the fitbit game… I just have a bad habit of taking it off at night and forgetting to put it on for a day or two!
We will see how it goes 🙂 I know, my battery dies and I don’t realize it for a few days. You were doing so good Lauren! You have to get back to it.
this is such a great link-up! getting everyone pumped to get shiz done!
Yes, we want everyone to get it done!! I find it so helpful to have to be accountable at the end of the month when I do my updates! Thanks for support Annie 🙂
Deffo, that trip to SF looks interesting! I would love to visit it there someday (plus the weather is nice there, as I have been told!).
Yes, SF has been on my travel bucket list for a while. I’m really looking forward to it, but overwhelmed with all there is do see, eat, and drink 🙂
LA! How exciting! I also love Yoga With Adrienne! 🙂 Good luck with the early mornings. It’s my most productive time. Love getting up early!
Yes, Adrienne is awesome! I’ve really enjoyed her videos. I’m working on it 🙂
oh, i would love to be living where you are! the west coast is so close to amazing mountains and hike trails!
We do have a TON of trails. I’m surprised at how many there are. The park we went to this past Sunday had ten different trails to choose from (all different). I’m really starting to enjoy hiking.
Love your goals! Hope you have fun in LA and planning your trip to San Fran. It’s one of my favorite cities. 🙂
Thanks Olya!! I’m sure will we have a good trip. I’m having so much trouble narrowing down what to do in SF.
Good luck on all of your different goals this month! I need to go through and edit old photos on my blog too. Definitely something I’m avoiding.
Thank you Shannon! Clearly it’s something I’ve been avoiding too 🙂 The other thing is I need to move pictures from my old computer too…such a pain 🙂
hahaha ‘did i really write this as a goal?’ and ‘crickets’. love it, thats how i feel about the goals i make sometimes!
I have to be truthful, it wouldn’t do much good to pretend I did them 🙂 Clearly sometimes I don’t think them all the way through in terms of will I get this done this month.
Yay, new linkup! I’m determined to do this! I’m very good at making goals, but very BAD at sticking with them, so I usually don’t say them out loud. That way, I don’t have to admit defeat – but I also don’t change anything about this. No more! I will write a post about July goals and link it right here! Pinky-swear!!
Also, I love how you’re networking and reaching out, so awesome!!
Yay, M!! So glad you will join us!!! I find it helps to have the goals written out and it makes me feel more accountable having to follow back up at the end of the month. It’s much easier when to let things go when I just think them 🙂
That “I’m not trashy, I recycle” slogan needs to be a t-shirt. I would wear it without shame. Thanks again for your great insights on San Diego for Global Food! That’s fast becoming one of my favorite posts to put together, even if all I have to do is the questions 😀 So glad you guys are doing the monthly goal link-up, and I’m looking forward to jumping on and throwing in some encouragement! July’s shaping up to be a great month!
I thought that slogan was so funny 🙂 It would be a good T-shirt. Of course, thanks for having me. It was fun to pick some of my top choices. Yes, you totally should join in!